Open Foris is a set of free and open-source software platforms that helps countries measure, monitor and report on forestry progress, take science-based actions, and accelerate forest pathways:
- national forest inventory and in-situ data collection;
- measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) for environmental integrity;
- deforestation-free supply chains; and
- restoration monitoring.
Part of FAO's open-source digital public goods, it serves as a transformative accelerator, ensuring innovative, accurate, and transparent forest monitoring accessible to everyone, everywhere, enhancing effectiveness and impact, while meeting the urgent need for systems that enable accurate, yet cost-effective monitoring, reporting and verification of forest and other land cover.
Highlights
Coffee, with coordinates. Coffee cooperatives map their land for sustainability
03/11/2026
For years, Peter Kibet could account for Toroton Farmers’ Cooperative Society’s coffee by weight. Farmers brought it from small plots scattered across...
Rwanda advances efforts to establish a national Peatland monitoring system
09/09/2026
Rwanda has taken an important step toward strengthening peatland management and climate transparency through a technical capacity engagement that laid...
Microlearning video series: Open Foris ARENA
15/05/2026
Explore this series of bite-sized e-learning video modules to quickly build practical skills in designing surveys and collecting high-quality field...
Practical workshop on peatland monitoring with SEPAL
18/05/2026
In Iquitos, FAO, through the AIM4Forests program and in coordination with the Peru Indigenous Peoples Group, held a practical workshop to strengthen...
Improving Digital Forest Data Collection Through Open Foris Arena in Viet Nam
27/10/2026
In this interview, Tran Khanh Nhu from the Forest Inventory and Planning Institute in Vietnam shares her experience using the Open Foris Arena microlearning...
Open Foris Ground elearning
01/10/2025
This course describes the growing challenges of field data collection and the use of open-source solutions like Open Foris Ground. In this course, you...
Forest-based removals and climate change mitigation - An overview of country experience
03/11/2026
This paper reviews the mitigation potential of forest-based removals, their role in the global carbon cycle, and the challenges of defining and assessing them. It examines how removals are measured, reported and verified in forest reference levels submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – of the 67 developing countries with a reference level, 47 countries (70 percent) included removal activities.
Partners
Open Foris: strengthening climate transparency
Reliable forest and land-use data are vital for credible climate reporting, yet LULUCF remains the most frequently reported capacity-building need in the first cycle of BTRs. Open Foris helps countries address it with free, open-source tools for forest and land monitoring. Click here to learn more.
- National Forest Monitoring
- SEPAL
- CBIT-Forest
- AIM4Forests
- REDD+ program
- Global Forest Resources Assessments
- Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform
- FERM platform
- Google Earth Engine
- UN-REDD Programme
- NICFI Satellite Data Program
- Planet
- United Kingdom's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety
Contact
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Roma RM (Italy)
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